Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:23 
Context1:23 So her husband Elkanah said to her, “Do what you think best. 1 Stay until you have weaned him. May the Lord fulfill his promise.” 2
So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
1 Samuel 4:20
Context4:20 As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, “Don’t be afraid! You have given birth to a son!” But she did not reply or pay any attention. 3
1 Samuel 5:10
Context5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.
But when the ark of God arrived at Ekron, the residents of Ekron cried out saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here 4 to kill our 5 people!”
1 Samuel 6:21
Context6:21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”
1 Samuel 7:6
Context7:6 After they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted on that day, and they confessed 6 there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel led 7 the people of Israel at Mizpah.
1 Samuel 8:5
Context8:5 They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead 8 us, just like all the other nations have.”
1 Samuel 9:8
Context9:8 The servant went on to answer Saul, “Look, I happen to have in my hand a quarter shekel 9 of silver. I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us where we should go.” 10
1 Samuel 9:20
Context9:20 Don’t be concerned 11 about the donkeys that you lost three days ago, for they have been found. Whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you, and all your father’s family?” 12
1 Samuel 12:2
Context12:2 Now look! This king walks before you. As for me, I am old and gray, though my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from the time of my youth till the present day.
1 Samuel 12:5
Context12:5 He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his chosen king 13 is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me.” 14 They said, “He is witness!”
1 Samuel 12:19-20
Context12:19 All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God on behalf of us – your servants – so we won’t die, for we have added to all our sins by asking for a king.” 15
12:20 Then Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed sinned. 16 However, don’t turn aside from the Lord. Serve the Lord with all your heart.
1 Samuel 13:11-12
Context13:11 But Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the army had started to abandon me 17 and that you didn’t come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash, 13:12 I thought, 18 ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.’ So I felt obligated 19 to offer the burnt offering.”
1 Samuel 14:33
Context14:33 Now it was reported to Saul, “Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood.” He said, “All of you have broken the covenant! 20 Roll a large stone over here to me.”
1 Samuel 14:43
Context14:43 So Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” Jonathan told him, “I used the end of the staff that was in my hand to taste a little honey. I must die!” 21
1 Samuel 15:3
Context15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare 22 them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”
1 Samuel 15:11
Context15:11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do.” Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.
1 Samuel 15:20
Context15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed 23 the Lord! I went on the campaign 24 the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 15:23
Context15:23 For rebellion is like the sin of divination,
and presumption is like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has rejected you as 25 king.”
1 Samuel 15:26
Context15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel!”
1 Samuel 15:30
Context15:30 Saul 26 again replied, “I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the Lord your God.”
1 Samuel 16:2
Context16:2 Samuel replied, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!” But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you 27 and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’
1 Samuel 16:5
Context16:5 He replied, “Yes, in peace. I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” So he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
1 Samuel 16:18
Context16:18 One of his attendants replied, 28 “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem 29 who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior 30 and is articulate 31 and handsome, 32 for the Lord is with him.”
1 Samuel 17:50
Context17:50 33 David prevailed over the Philistine with just the sling and the stone. He struck down the Philistine and killed him. David did not even have a sword in his hand. 34
1 Samuel 19:17
Context19:17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’” 35
1 Samuel 20:8
Context20:8 You must be loyal 36 to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the Lord’s name. 37 If I am guilty, 38 you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”
1 Samuel 20:30
Context20:30 Saul became angry with Jonathan 39 and said to him, “You stupid traitor! 40 Don’t I realize that to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother’s nakedness you have chosen this son of Jesse?
1 Samuel 21:8
Context21:8 David said to Ahimelech, “Is there no sword or spear here at your disposal? I don’t have my own sword or equipment in hand due to the urgency of the king’s instructions.”
1 Samuel 24:19
Context24:19 Now if a man finds his enemy, does he send him on his way in good shape? May the Lord repay you with good this day for what you have done to me.
1 Samuel 25:8
Context25:8 Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come 41 at the time of a holiday. Please provide us – your servants 42 and your son David – with whatever you can spare.” 43
1 Samuel 25:11
Context25:11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”
1 Samuel 25:35
Context25:35 Then David took from her hand what she had brought to him. He said to her, “Go back 44 to your home in peace. Be assured that I have listened to you 45 and responded favorably.” 46
1 Samuel 26:14
Context26:14 David called to the army and to Abner son of Ner, “Won’t you answer, Abner?” Abner replied, “Who are you, that you have called to the king?”
1 Samuel 27:5
Context27:5 David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?”
1 Samuel 29:9-10
Context29:9 Achish replied to David, “I am convinced that you are as reliable 47 as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us in the battle.’ 29:10 So get up early in the morning along with the servants of your lord who have come with you. 48 When you get up early in the morning, as soon as it is light enough to see, leave.” 49
1 tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”
2 tn Heb “establish his word.” This apparently refers to the promise inherent in Eli’s priestly blessing (see v. 17).
3 tn Heb “and she did not set her heart.”
4 tn Heb “to me.”
5 tn Heb “my.”
6 tn Heb “said.”
7 tn Heb “judged”; NAB “began to judge”; TEV “settled disputes among.”
8 tn Heb “judge” (also in v. 6).
9 sn A quarter shekel of silver would weigh about a tenth of an ounce (about 3 grams).
10 tn Heb “our way.”
11 tn Heb “do not fix your heart.”
12 tn Heb “and all the house of your father.”
13 tn Heb “anointed [one].”
14 tn Heb “that you have not found anything in my hand.”
15 tn Heb “for we have added to all our sins an evil [thing] by asking for ourselves a king.”
16 tn Heb “you have done all this evil.”
17 tn Heb “dispersed from upon me.”
18 tn Heb “said.”
19 tn Or “I forced myself” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, CEV); NAB “So in my anxiety I offered”; NIV “I felt compelled.”
20 tn Heb “You have acted deceptively.” In this context the verb refers to violating an agreement, in this case the dietary and sacrificial regulations of the Mosaic law. The verb form is second masculine plural; apparently Saul here addresses those who are eating the animals.
21 tn Heb “Look, I, I will die.” Apparently Jonathan is acquiescing to his anticipated fate of death. However, the words may be taken as sarcastic (“Here I am about to die!”) or as a question, “Must I now die?” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).
22 tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).
23 tn Heb “listened to the voice of the
24 tn Heb “journey.”
25 tn Or “from [being].”
26 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Saul) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 tn Heb “in your hand.”
28 tn Heb “answered and said.”
29 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
30 tn Heb “mighty man of valor and a man of war.”
31 tn Heb “discerning of word.”
32 tn Heb “a man of form.”
33 tc Most LXX
34 tn Verse 50 is a summary statement; v. 51 gives a more detailed account of how David killed the Philistine.
35 tn Heb “Send me away! Why should I kill you?” The question has the force of a threat in this context. See P. K. McCarter, I Samuel (AB), 325, 26.
36 tn Heb “and you must do loyalty.”
37 tn Heb “for into a covenant of the
38 tn Heb “and if there is in me guilt.”
39 tc Many medieval Hebrew
40 tn Heb “son of a perverse woman of rebelliousness.” But such an overly literal and domesticated translation of the Hebrew expression fails to capture the force of Saul’s unrestrained reaction. Saul, now incensed and enraged over Jonathan’s liaison with David, is actually hurling very coarse and emotionally charged words at his son. The translation of this phrase suggested by Koehler and Baumgartner is “bastard of a wayward woman” (HALOT 796 s.v. עוה), but this is not an expression commonly used in English. A better English approximation of the sentiments expressed here by the Hebrew phrase would be “You stupid son of a bitch!” However, sensitivity to the various public formats in which the Bible is read aloud has led to a less startling English rendering which focuses on the semantic value of Saul’s utterance (i.e., the behavior of his own son Jonathan, which he viewed as both a personal and a political betrayal [= “traitor”]). But this concession should not obscure the fact that Saul is full of bitterness and frustration. That he would address his son Jonathan with such language, not to mention his apparent readiness even to kill his own son over this friendship with David (v. 33), indicates something of the extreme depth of Saul’s jealousy and hatred of David.
41 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew
42 tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.
43 tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”
44 tn Heb “up.”
45 tn Heb “your voice.”
46 tn Heb “I have lifted up your face.”
47 tn Heb “I know that you are good in my eyes.”
48 tc The LXX and a couple of Old Latin
49 tn Heb “when you get up early in the morning and you have light, go.”
